TRANSGUIDE MODEL DEPLOYMENT INITIATIVE: RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF A RAPID DEPLOYMENT OF ITS TECHNOLOGY

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) TransGuide System was selected by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to serve as a showcase for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) under the Model Deployment Initiative (MDI) program. A primary goal of the MDI was to showcase ITS technologies in a multi-modal environment. This paper discusses the various ITS technologies that were integrated into the TransGuide environment during the MDI program. The paper also includes statistics about the programs and various observations about the implementation and use of each system. For the covering abstract see IRRD E102946.